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Matthew James Bailey is an internationally recognised pioneer and authority in the global phenomena of Innovation, Global AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Cities, The Internet of Things and Large Scale Transformation.  His life and career have been dedicated to liberating flourishing futures for humankind through partnership with the digital world.  His extraordinary leadership is widely acknowledged throughout governments and the private sector. He is a sought-after advisor and keynote speaker. Bailey has been privileged to meet famous global leaders such as Steve Wozniak, innovation and technology; Sir David Attenborough and John P. Milton, the environment; Professor Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist and cosmologist; in addition to prime ministers, ministers, under secretaries, representatives of G7 Countries, and many more. He has assisted multiple territories and global technology companies to successfully position themselves into the digital future.

  Matthew is the inventor of the world leading Ethical AI Certification and Maturity Model™ - a breakthrough methodology for qualifying and quantifying,  measuring, assessing, classifying and certifying the "Ethical" Quality of AI. This unicorn invention reveals for the FIRST time in  human history the abiliyt to create an ETHICAL GENEALOGY for artificial intelligence.  This revelation  sets the ethical standard for human-machine futures and a new course for humankind. 

Bailey has been classified by the US government as “A Person of Extraordinary Ability” (self-sponsored) for his global and influential work in the Internet of Things (IoT) and innovation. This elite and prestigious recognition is only awarded to those who have attained an exceptional level of achievement in their field of expertise i.e. one of that small percentage who have risen to the very top of the field of endeavour. He has also  been a World Technology Network award nominee. Previous winners have included well known visionaries such as Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX), Sir Tim Berners Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web), James Collier (founder of Cambridge Silicon Radio) and former US Vice President Al Gore. In September 2021, Matthew was recognised as a Who's Who in Artificial Intelligence and in February 2022 invited as a Visiting Scholar by the National Institute of Aerospace.

Bailey operates at the intersection of innovation and leading edge technologies to enable positive economic, social, and environmental change. His vision for society, guiding innovation, and technologies that advance humanity into its future (what he terms World 3.0) has inspired governments, business and citizens. He has participated in discussions with the United States’ government, private roundtable with the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and the Quad Countries, as well as with the Prime Minister of the  United Kingdom on domestic and global strategies to position their nation as a prominent leader in the fields of innovation, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and Smart Cities.

Bailey’s commitment to working for the advancement of global society has influenced organisations and territories in their partnership with the digital world. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies in computing and telecoms. He has advised national and regional governments, worked with economic development agencies, and contributed in the success of global wireless and edge computing standards bodies. International and national investors have sought his advice as have serial entrepreneurs and startups in a number of countries. With a passion for education, he has guided international educational organisations, supported numerous accelerators and been a guest lecturer at Cambridge University. Currently, Matthew  is a Special Advisor and Visiting Scholar to Pakistan's University of Management and Technology and is a Visiting Scholar at a business and technology university in Costa Rica.

With an ambition to advance regional transformation, Matthew has contributed to the progression of the Province of Alberta, Canada, as a board member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Authority. He catalysed transformation for the state of Colorado as the original co-founder of the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, the first state-wide alliance in the United States, and a Smart City Innovation Centre dedicated to serve state-wide digital transformation. In 2016, he wrote a Whitepaper outlining innovation and technology cluster principles. This paper, titled “How to Build Smart Cities Mindfully”, has set the standard for Smart Cities around the world. He recently co-authored a whitepaper titled "Artificial Intelligence with Cities - the next stage of societal digital transformation" an EU/US collaboration with the FIWARE Foundation.

Matthew is co-chair of an Artificial Intelligence-Smart City-Super Computing Cluster that is part of the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC), Member of the Board of Directors for the Open Civic Foundation - a Smart Region global standard initiative partnering with the OMG, GCTC, NIST/NTIA. He is the Global Ambassador of an Artificial Intelligence Innovation District for a Medical Technology City in Mwale, Kenya; serves on the board of a European Artificial Intelligence startup - Smarter.AI;  serves on the advisory board for Smart Cities Miami Expo and is a Research Associate for the Cambridge Learning Gateway. In 2021, he completed an interim role as Executive Advisor  for a US company provisioning Supercomputing and Trusted Data Infrastructure to enable Artificial Intelligence to serve Society, Cities and Space and serving on the national steering committee for The Global Cities Team Challenge (NIST/NTIA);  

Bailey is known as an energetic and inspiring communicator. He is regularly featured as a keynote speaker around the world at both public and private events. He has shared his ideas in radio interviews, through the press, in podcasts and on online media. The largest audience has been 3 million people on a BBC radio program.

Originally from England, Matthew James Bailey currently lives in the United States where he enjoys writing and consulting globally with clients in the public and private sectors. Matthew is a regular blogger and columnist. Following publication of his book - Inventing World 3.0 - he founded AIEthics.World and The World Wide Ethical AI Institute.